From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 07:12:29 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA22162 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 07:12:29 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA22134 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 07:12:16 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA29099; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 10:11:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 10:11:50 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9503211511.AA29099@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: captain@pubnix.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, gated-alpha@gated.cornell.edu Subject: Gated is crashing my system! In-Reply-To: <9503202148.AA26658@rf.dataradio.com> References: <9503202148.AA26658@rf.dataradio.com> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > I'm having some problems with gated R3_5Alpha9 on a FreeBSD 2.0 system. > The system has 5 dialin lines that either allow shell or slip access. > After operating correctly for some time (1-2 hours), the system crashes > after gated tries to remove a route from the kernel when one of the slip > lines shuts down. The commands issued to shutdown the slip line are: > ifconfig slx down > ifconfig slx delete Try pulling over the -current version of netinet/ip_output.c. I recently fixed some potential race conditions involving multicast options which I think may be the cause of this problem. (And if this doesn't fix it, I'd like to know that, too.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant